Awkwardness Quotes - Page 2

• We are called to love others. We share the gospel because we love people. And we don't share the gospel because we don't love people. Instead, we wrongly fear them. We don't want to cause awkwardness. We want their respect, and after all, we figure, if we try to share the gospel with them, we'll look foolish! And so we are quiet. We protect our pride at the cost of their souls. In the name of not wanting to look weird, we are content to be complicit in their being lost.

  Mark Dever

  Pride, Names, People

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• There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

  Todd Phillips

  Kissing, Bye, Guy

  Interview With Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Race, Skin Color

  "Gabourey Sidibe is both fan, star when it comes to 'Empire'". The Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

  Lorrie Moore

  Interesting, Stories, Comedy

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Feelings, Comedy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Anger is practical awkwardness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Anger, Practicals

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• Whenever you get a bunch of guys that are funny or think they’re funny, when you first meet, there’s always a lot of bits and it’s never, ever, ever funny. So basically you have to get through the awkwardness.

  Chris Jericho

  Thinking, Guy, Firsts

  "Is Chris Jericho a Bad Cop in Comedy Central’s ‘Nothing To Report’? His Partner Says No". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.

  Fairfield Porter

  Order, Trying, Failing

  Fairfield Porter, Ted Leigh, Justin Spring (2005). “Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Routine, Research

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• Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Misfortunes

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

  Blake Judd

  Mean, Evil, Identity

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ill Will, Justice, Office

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• I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, People, Style

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.

  Carolyn Hax

  Support

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Children, Class, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.

  Carolyn Hax

  Mean, Risk, Perception

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm socially awkward. What draws me to playing socially awkward characters? I think they're interesting. I'm fascinated kind of by - I mean, I know I'm sure I've got my own social awkwardness but I'm kind of fascinated by that and I lived, probably, I attribute it - I lived in New York for a long time, road the subways, saw a lot of awkwardness, but they're just interesting. They're not cookie cutter. They're usually very colorful characters. They see things different ways and, I don't know, its just a kind of - just a kind of life that interesting to me.

  Tony Hale

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• In early comics, you see the amazing awkwardness and bizarre reasoning in the storyline, and it's because comics hadn't really been invented yet. There was no format for them to follow. They were just making it up. So I try to incorporate that kind of awkwardness in my comics quite frequently, which is odd. In some ways, I can't be as awkward as I'd like. But I do think that's one way in which my comics are unusual, because I will try to make the artwork look bad, occasionally.

  Michael Kupperman

  Thinking, Awkward, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not a huge comedy buff, truthfully. What I find funny is either something unbelievably stupid, like Dumb And Dumber or Airplane!, where the jokes are just so stupid and pointless, or something like The Office or The Comeback, where the humor is in the excruciating awkwardness of a situation. Stella kind of explores both of those, stupidity and awkwardness.

  Michael Showalter

  Stupid, Airplane, Office

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 28, 2008.

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• Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Understanding, Bigs, Discomfort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Eye, Golf, Body

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• The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

  Jarryd James

  Important, Rooms, Forget

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